Threads must be doing something really square with user data if they could not start in Europe because of violation of rather toothless GDPR regulation (as if someone really dig into all those possible settings instead of clicking ok on the popup).
Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
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#102Anyone else hear the sound of 10M bots and influencers arriving.
And journalists. Who can resist a fresh new source of click-bait?
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#103I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…
> In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app
Sadly I think that's just you and me. If something requires an app then I'm most likely not going to use it. I can't/won't deal with more apps (or subscriptions).
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#104I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it. Elon is egging it on, it's a complete mess. Censoring the aforementioned topics does not make them go away, time has shown that. And Megacorps controlling the public Overton window has just lead to society boiling and rumbling in the dark.
for you tab isn't about censoring, it's about pushing content that will increase engagement, and pushing "fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war" is one way to do it
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#105I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
Exactly! I'm sure lots of people will stay on Twitter. But ad buyers, celebrities and brands are not very interested in the niche communities, and thus Twitter as business will be extremely hurt.
This made me think of the ad business on Twitter which I think might be its real killer.
If a community builds up on Threads (and why wouldn't it, reserving spots for 2B Instagram users?), the ad value will then probably be much greater there, and businesses (and thus influencers) will see a more lucrative environment there.
Why?
1. Meta harvests more data from your phones than Twitter which provides more accurate ad targetting.
2. Twitter is poorly ran and struggles even with basic things like not pissing advertisers off as they keep making controversial decisions for the network.
The news of rate limits must have spread like shock waves through the ad community, as one example. Reducing reach by now walling their garden and killing embedded tweets to make it harder to get to their ads another.
As for celebrities, they already have good community contact on Instagram since the visual medium lends itself extremely well in that regard, and I'm 100% sure Threads will ultimately become an extension to Instagram.
Isn't it funny how Elon has hunted his X.com idea for a "social network for everything"?
Instagram is far ahead than him now. They have Instagram photos, Snapchat stories, TikTok reels, and now Twitter threads.
Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
#106I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…
Pro accounts don't like mobile-only experiences
Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
#107I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…
It doesn’t ask for contacts. It pulls everything from Instagram
The app does ask for permission to get your contacts, according to the app store page
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#108requires an Instagram account, but what if you don't have one, would Instagram require a Facebook account? that would be funny!
Explains the 10M signups though, Meta has a huge network but I would've span it off, no Insta et al.
OK - I'm off to create an Instagram account so I can create a Threads account so that I finally won't have to start using Twitter!
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#109I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
I wonder if a clone social network, especially from an established company, can really succeed.
All or most of the successful ones grew mostly organically and evolved other time, and were not a copy of another big social app.
Twitter has not even that much users relative to how much it is talk about in the press.
Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
#110I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
Threads is banned in the EU due to GDPR issues. We'll have to see who backs down on that first.
Are we going to go back to country specific social networks like Orkut? VK? (which is still going)